US1720488A - Toboggan coaster - Google Patents

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TOEOGGAN COASTER Filed April 21, 1927 ATTORNEY.

INVENTOR I Patented July 9, 19.239. UNlTEll PATENT @FFlCll.

FRED B. LIEB, F BROCKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOE Oll FORTE CENT TO ADAM SEYFERT, 0]? NEW "YORK, N.

TOBOGGAN' COASTER.

Application filed April 2]., 1953 Serial No. 1335,4420.

The main object of this invention is to prodrum and its segment form an annular pevide a wheeled vehicle which is adaptable for riphery around half of which a brake band use on hills and other inclined surfaces and 20 circles. An upright 21 is mounted on one consists of a platform mounted on four wheels of the side slats of the platform and has a which are so constructed as to be capable of brake lever 22 pivoted thereon. The lower 60 great speed, a hand operated steering mechaend of the brake band is secured to the nism, and a hand operated brake mechanism. lever and the opposite end attached to a. peg

Another obj cct of this invention is to pro- Which is mounted on the side of a guard rail. vide a toboggan coaster capable of attaining This guard consists of side rails 53? and Qel 1 relatively high speed and which is provided which are joined at the front by a rail 25 6 with a novel brake mechanism which urges a which serves as a. bumper guard. The latter block outwardly to be contacted with by the projects in front of the platform in an oval brake band of the device. shape and has the ends of a foot bar 26 se- The above and other objects will become apcured thereto on which rest the feet of the parent in the description below in which leading passenger. characters of reference refer to like-named Studs 27 are pivotally mounted between. the parts in the drawing. tongues 28 of the uprights 13 on the front Referring briefly to the drawing, Figure 1 axle 11. These studs have the front wheels is a top plan view of the toboggan coaster. 2t rotatably secured thereon. Each stud has 20 Figure 2 is a side elevational view of the a rearwardly projecting arm 30 and these same showing the steering and braking armsare mutually connected by a bar 31 in a means pivoted manner. Additional arms 32 extend Figure 3 is a cross sectional view taken sidcwise from the studs and have the ends of through the brake drum showing the mountflexible cables 38 and 34 secured thereto.

ing of the brake block in the drum. These cables are trained around pulleys 35 Figure at is a front elevational view of the and mutually cross each other and at their coaster showing the front guard rail. opposite ends have loops 36 secured thereto.

Referring in detail to the drawing, the 1011- The pulleys are suspended from the lower ineral 10 indicates a number of slats which ends of the legs 37 which depend from the are laid side by side and form a platform on foot bar 26. as which the passengers are carried. The slats The toboggan coaster is used for the seat are mounted on a forward and rear axle 11 ing of a number of persons who sit facing the and 12, respectively. These axles are U- front. The leading passenger places his feet shaped consisting of longitudinal bars from on the foot bar 26 and with his hands grasps which upright arms 13 extend. The bars of the loops 36 ecured to the ends of the flexible the axles serve as a seat for the slats 10, which cables 33 and 3-l. The rearmost passenger latter are secured in place by rivets or thelihe. grasps the brake lever with one hand and The rear axle has horizontal extensions there with the other holds on to the guard rail 24;, on on which the rear wheels 14: of the coaster which all of the remaining passengers also do. are rotatably mounted. in steering toward the right or the left first Adjacent one of the rear wheels 1% a brake one or the other of the flexible cables is pulled drum 15 is located. This brake drum is thus rotating one or the other of the studs mounted rigid with the wheel which it lies 28 thru the medium of the arms 32 to which. adjacent to and has a radial portion removed the flGXllJlG cables are attached. As the rear therefrom. A segment 16 is loosely mounted wheel 1a having the brake drum 15 mounted in the space left by the removed portion of on its side, is rotated the segment 16 when the drum. The latter is formed hollow at its not retained in posltion by the brake band axis and in the space so formed a flat spring will swing slightly outward by the action of 17 is provided which has one end riveted to the spring 17 and will be pressed into 1tspropthe surface of the drum. The segment is arcer position again when it comes into contact uate in shape and is provided with a recess 18 with brake band which latter encircles only located on opposite sides in which projecting half of the drum, thereby checkmg ts speed pins 19 are housed, the pins extending from with greater rapidity than is possible with the side surfaces of the drum which bound the usual type of brake. the removed portion. The outline of the It is to be noted that certain changes in thereof, pins rigid on said drum protruding into the cut out portion and into said notches, an arcuate spring attached to said drum in the hollow central portion thereof and having a free end contacting with the block to urge the latter outward, and a band encircling a part of said drum adapted to be tautened about said drum.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

FRED B. L] IQ It.

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